achieve | (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, attain, reach |
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achievement | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: accomplishment |
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achiever | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: succeeder, success, winner |
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aggrieve | (verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: grieve |
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(verb) infringe on the rights of | - |
believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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(verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
(verb) credit with veracity | - |
(verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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(noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
disbelieve | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: discredit |
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grieve | (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: sorrow |
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(verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: aggrieve |
griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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misbelieve | (verb) hold a false or unorthodox belief | - |
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misbeliever | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: heretic, religious outcast |
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nonachievement | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonaccomplishment |
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nonachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: underachiever, underperformer |
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nonbeliever | (noun) someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity) | - |
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overachieve | (verb) perform better or achieve a greater degree of success than expected | - |
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overachievement | (noun) better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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overachiever | (noun) a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated | - |
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relieve | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, palliate |
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(verb) provide relief for | Synonyms: remedy |
(verb) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive | Synonyms: lighten |
(verb) relieve oneself of troubling information | Synonyms: unbosom |
(verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, exempt, let off |
(verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, ease, still |
(verb) take by stealing | - |
(verb) free from a burden, evil, or distress | - |
(verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: salvage, salve, save |
(verb) free someone temporarily from his or her obligations | Synonyms: take over |
(verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: exempt, free |
relieved | (adjective) (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviated, eased |
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(adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, sticking, sticking out |
reliever | (noun) a pitcher who does not start the game | Synonyms: fireman, relief pitcher |
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(noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, stand-in, substitute |
(noun) a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies | Synonyms: allayer, comforter |
reprieve | (noun) the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment | Synonyms: respite |
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(noun) a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence) | - |
(noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, respite, suspension |
(noun) a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort | Synonyms: respite |
(verb) relieve temporarily | - |
(verb) postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution | Synonyms: respite |
retrieve | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, think |
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(verb) run after, pick up, and bring to the master | - |
(verb) go for and bring back | - |
(verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, recover, regain |
retriever | (noun) a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game | - |
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sieve | (noun) a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles | Synonyms: screen |
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(verb) distinguish and separate out | Synonyms: sift |
(verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sift, strain |
(verb) check and sort carefully | Synonyms: sift |
(verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen, screen out, sort |
thieve | (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, hook, knock off, snitch |
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thievery | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, stealing, theft, thieving |
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underachieve | (verb) perform less well or with less success than expected | Synonyms: underperform |
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underachievement | (noun) poorer than expected performance (poorer than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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underachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: nonachiever, underperformer |
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unrelieved | (adjective) not lessened or diminished | Synonyms: undiminished |
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